Calixte Delmas Explained

Calixte Delmas
Birth Date:18 January 1906
Birth Place:Perpignan, France
Death Place:Joinville-le-Pont, France

Calixte Delmas (18 January 1906  - 5 April 1927) was a French wrestler and rugby player. He competed in the freestyle featherweight event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.[1]

In 1922, he was the wrestling champion of Paris and the Greco-Roman vice-champion of France at 15. In 1924 he was the national champion and the youngest participant at the 1924 Olympics in Paris, where he reached the quarter finals.[2]

He died from an accident at the military school in Joinville-le-Pont.[3] He fell from a human pyramid and broke his neck.

There is a statue of him by Raymond Sudre in the Cimetière Sud de Saint-Mandé (South Cemetery of Saint-Mandé, birth date wrong on the statue).

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Calixte Delmas Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417201148/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/de/calixte-delmas-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 8 September 2013 . sports-reference.com.
  2. Web site: The sporting star who fell to earth. Adam. 12 May 2016. The sporting star who fell to earth ~ Invisible Paris. 28 November 2018.
  3. Web site: jean-luc/alpra/bob: LUTTEURS...........de père en FILS (1886 / 2015). Alpra. Bob. 27 March 2015. jean-luc/alpra/bob. 28 November 2018.